Summary of Team of Teams: by General Stanley McChrystal | Includes Analysis
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Team of Teams by General Stanley McChrystal is an examination of the process he
began of restructuring the Joint Special Operations Command management style,
from a rigid command str
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Team of Teams by General Stanley McChrystal is an examination of the process he began of restructuring the Joint Special Operations Command management style, from a rigid command structure to a cooperative team comprised of smaller specialized teams. While fighting Al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI), General McChrystal noted how the United States and coalition militaries were efficient war-fighting machines, but they were not adaptable or effective against the seemingly disordered AQI. In 2005, after a particularly destructive terrorist attack at the opening of a sewage plant near Baghdad, McChrystal began considering whether the efficient structure was actually hindering the counterinsurgency, preventing them from responding to threats in real time and delaying the capture of AQI leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
Modern military management originated at the 1900 World's Fair, when Frederick Winslow Taylor revealed his work in steel production efficiency. Taylor believed that there is a right way to do any given thing, and he built reductionist processes to streamline how production employees work and what they need to know to do their jobs. In reductionist management schemes, employees focus only on their role and need not communicate with other employees or ask questions of their managers about the bigger picture.
Taylor's ideas reconfigured the world of work and entered soldiers’ lives in the rigorous routines they must perform, their uniforms and supplies, and their inability to question their superiors or participate in decision-making processes. Lack of communication and involvement of the